Blue River | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1971 | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Length | 46:43 | |||
Label | Columbia [1] | |||
Producer | Norbert Putnam [2] | |||
Eric Andersen chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Christgau's Record Guide | C [4] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Blue River is an album by folk rock musician Eric Andersen, released in 1972. [7] [8] The album was reissued in 1999 by Columbia Legacy with two extra tracks. [9]
The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. [10] Joni Mitchell contributes vocals on the title track, "Blue River". [3]
No Depression called the album's sound "subtle and incandescent," writing that producer Norbert Putnam "crafted a sound that was both sensual and spacious — at times reminiscent of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks — and always attentive to the languid melodies and sometimes frightening intimacy of Andersen’s lyrics." [10] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide wrote that the album "stands alongside anything that the singer-songwriter produced during the '70s." [5] The Los Angeles Times deemed it "a delicately melodic, bittersweetly introspective song cycle that found its place within the Carole King-James Taylor-Joni Mitchell-Jackson Browne school of sensitive pop." [11]
~* = Bonus Track on CD Release (recorded during album sessions)
Chart (1972) | Peak position |
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US Top LPs [12] | 169 |
Canada RPM 100 [13] | 61 |
Blue River | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1971 | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Length | 46:43 | |||
Label | Columbia [1] | |||
Producer | Norbert Putnam [2] | |||
Eric Andersen chronology | ||||
|
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Christgau's Record Guide | C [4] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Blue River is an album by folk rock musician Eric Andersen, released in 1972. [7] [8] The album was reissued in 1999 by Columbia Legacy with two extra tracks. [9]
The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. [10] Joni Mitchell contributes vocals on the title track, "Blue River". [3]
No Depression called the album's sound "subtle and incandescent," writing that producer Norbert Putnam "crafted a sound that was both sensual and spacious — at times reminiscent of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks — and always attentive to the languid melodies and sometimes frightening intimacy of Andersen’s lyrics." [10] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide wrote that the album "stands alongside anything that the singer-songwriter produced during the '70s." [5] The Los Angeles Times deemed it "a delicately melodic, bittersweetly introspective song cycle that found its place within the Carole King-James Taylor-Joni Mitchell-Jackson Browne school of sensitive pop." [11]
~* = Bonus Track on CD Release (recorded during album sessions)
Chart (1972) | Peak position |
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US Top LPs [12] | 169 |
Canada RPM 100 [13] | 61 |